2015

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The Internet With A Human Face

I’ve come to believe that a lot of what’s wrong with the Internet has to do with memory. The Internet somehow contrives to remember too much and too little at the same time, and it maps poorly on our concepts of how memory should work.

Gems

Top Gear

Top Gear is a British motoring programme. It aired on BBC Two from 20 October 2002 to 28 June 2015 in its best known form. Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May presented it together for 22 series.

TV Series

Prague Day 05

Day 5 of my trip to Prague in the Czech Republic.

Trips

Prague Day 04

Day 4 of my trip to Prague in the Czech Republic.

Trips

Prague Day 03

Day 3 of my trip to Prague in the Czech Republic.

Trips

Prague Day 02

Day 2 of my trip to Prague in the Czech Republic.

Trips

Prague Day 01

Day 1 of my trip to Prague in the Czech Republic.

Trips

What are remoted and remotemanagementd?

If you see remoted or remotemanagementd running on your Mac, here is what these remote access processes do.

Mac

Kill all browser plugins

In the last few years all big players on the internet, started adopting HTML5 for video streaming. Like YouTube, Netflix and all kinds of news websites.

Development

What is warmd?

If you see warmd running on your Mac, here is what this app preloading process does.

Mac

Monthly update #0302 • June 2015

Monthly update 302 • June 2015 • 2015-06-01 - 2015-06-30

Monthly Updates

CloudKit

CloudKit, a powerful framework by Apple, enables iOS developers to integrate iCloud functionality into apps, eliminating the need for custom backend code and server maintenance by providing seamless user authentication, data storage, and file management.

Development

Monthly update #0301 • May 2015

Monthly update 301 • May 2015 • 2015-05-01 - 2015-05-31

Monthly Updates

Fletta

Fletta is a webbrowser specially designed for usages in public places, for example in hotels, restaurants, libraries, etc. It wil take cares of your users privacy.

Projects

Monthly update #0300 • April 2015

Monthly update 300 • April 2015 • 2015-04-01 - 2015-04-30

Monthly Updates

Useful macOS defaults: Crash Reporter

Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.CrashReporter, controlling how crash dialogs behave.

Mac

The Imitation Game

The Grey (2011), directed by Joe Carnahan, follows men who crash in Alaska. Liam Neeson plays Ottway, a hunter who guards oil workers. He knows wolves and death.

Movies

Monthly update #0299 • March 2015

Monthly update 299 • March 2015 • 2015-03-01 - 2015-03-31

Monthly Updates

About labels and icons

In the battle of clarity between icons and labels, labels always win.

Development

Parks and Recreation

Parks and Recreation is an American comedy series. It aired on NBC from 9 April 2009 to 24 February 2015. Greg Daniels and Michael Schur created it. Amy Poehler plays Leslie Knope, a cheerful and driven mid-level bureaucrat in the parks department of Pawnee, Indiana.

TV Series

The Mentalist

The Mentalist is an American crime drama series. It aired on CBS from 23 September 2008 to 18 February 2015. Bruno Heller created it. Simon Baker plays Patrick Jane, a former fake psychic who now works as a consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation.

TV Series

NSCalendar Additions

NSCalendar offers many tools for working with dates beyond basic NSDateComponents.

Development

What is system_installd?

If you see system_installd running on your Mac, here is what this system-level installer process does.

Mac

NSScanner

NSScanner wraps a string to pull out substrings and numbers. It has properties like caseSensitive (for matches), charactersToBeSkipped (ignores chars), scanLocation (current position), locale (for numbers).

Development

Monthly update #0298 • February 2015

Monthly update 298 • February 2015 • 2015-02-01 - 2015-02-28

Monthly Updates